Legal Opinion
Conservation Law Foundation of New England, Inc. v. General Services Administration
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 17, 1983No. 82-1861PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal we consider the interaction of two federal statutes — the Federal Property and Administrative Services of Act of 1949 (“FPAS”), 40 U.S.C. §§ 471 et seq. and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (“NEPA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321 et seq. At issue are certain federally owned properties in Rhode Island, 1 formerly used as naval facilities, which the Department of Defense in 1974 declared excess to its needs and turned over to the General Services Administration (“GSA”) for disposition pursuant to FPAS. 2 In 1977 the Conservation Law Foundation (“CLF”) 3 and…
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- Wyoming v. United States Department of AgricultureDistrict Court, D. Wyoming · 2003
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